Hi All, I just wanted to let you all know I am back and trying to get the information I received while I was away updated. I have lots of look ups to do and I have to get caught up. It will take me a few days so please bare with me. We had a wonderful time in Hawaii and plan to go back as soon as we can afford it. I saw an old friend Mary Harmon, that I have not seen for 37 years. We went to school together and lived next door to each other in Hamilton. It was quite a reunion but not very much time. I have not made the connection yet but I think she might be a step cousin too. Shawnnee

Hello, Is there anyone out there with a copy of the 1860 census, I'm looking for Gilbert Martin and his family in Chili Twp (I found a "hit" in the census index in ancestry.com). If anyone can help me out, I'd really appreciate it. Thank you, Tracy Verba nauvoo@interpath.com

Dear Seekers: According to the latest historical society newsletter, Volume XVII - Number 1 - February 2000, one of the 'completed projects' of the society is: Moss Ridge Cemetery Every name index made, including Calvary, Rest Haven Abby & Veterans Circle and the original Moss Ridge -- also 1998 burials included in card file & added to new index above is not listed as a publication for sale. Suggest you check in at the society's website at: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/1542 or send a query to the Email address: hancockhistory@yahoo.com Good hunting - good luck! Shirley: bobert@panacom.com

In Oregon you can not obtain a birth certificate for 100 years after the birth you are requesting. ie if the birth was in 1915, you can't obtain it until 2015. I would rather be able to send a death cert to obtain the birth instead of waiting forever!! LOL Michelle

Wondering if you ever received this? Barbara Massey -----Original Message----- From: Barbara Massey <bmassey@accessus.net> To: shawnee@ips.net <shawnee@ips.net> Date: Sunday, January 16, 2000 4:49 PM Subject: Cemetery Listings >First in Greenwood, Hamilton, Illinois > >Emmanett (Bingle) you have listed should read > >Emmanette Bingle Glines, wife of John Thomas Glines >Emmanette Bingle born 1853 deceased 1937 >Married John Thomas Glines 1873 > >Beside Emmanette in Greenwood is her husband: > >John Thomas Glines born 1854 deceased 1918 > >Also along side Emmanette, John, John Albert is John Thomas Glines sister > >Nellie Glines Austin born 1883 deceased 1921 >Married Thomas Austin > >Also in this same lot, my brother > >Lloyd Earl Glines born 1925 deceased 1933 > >John Albert Glines born August 3, 1892 deceased July 18, 1918 with the >Colors in France > >Also there are three unmarked stones in Greenwood, another lot right beside >my grandparents lot, these are stones of babies >Two of those babies belong to my Aunt Nora Glines Schwartz. >I only know one baby's name Alma Schwartz, and I call the other Baby Boy >Schwartz. The other baby stone is a child of Etha Glines Ross. (Do not know >gender) > >Also in Greenwood > >Henry Schwartz 1879 - 1956 >LeNora Glines Schwartz 1880 - 1948 > >Also in Greenwood > >Viola Glines Inman 1872 - 1948 >Thomas Inman 1870 - 1940 > >NOW ON TO OAKWOOD CEMETERY > >I see no Glines on your list here so I'll just list all of them I know. . . > >Olin Mearl Glines born August 6, 1898 deceased April 17, 1978 >Ada Olive Everomon Glines born July 4, 1901 dec. Feb. 15, 1997 > >John Mearl Glines born Dec 25, 1922 deceased June 21, 1996 >Doris Isabelle Savage Glines born May 5, 1925 dec. Aug 18, 1977 > >Ralph Robert Glines born May 16, 1924 dec. April 3, 1978 > >Wayne Omar Glines born Oct. 30, 1927 dec. May 1, 1949 WWII Boblinger, >Germany > >Kenneth Ollen Glines born June 25, 1929 dec. July 4, 1995 > >Lester Lee Glines born October 31, 1931 dec. Oct. 26, 1984 > >His daughter: Janice Lynn Glines (stillborn) July 1, 1951 > >Earl Ernest Glines born Sept. 5, 1888 dec. May 7, 1954 > > Brother-In-Law > >Fred Lee Harmon born Dec 5, 1917 dec. June 1, 1990 > >Brother-In-Law > >John Delano Rhoer born Oct. 26, 1933 dec. Nov 16, 1985 >His son: John Daniel Rhoer born May 22, 1969 dec. Sept 23, 1993 > >Brother-In-Law >Allan Devon Stephenson born Jan 11, 1938 dec March 18, 1993 > >BARNES CEMETERY CARTHAGE, IL > >You have these listed but I will provide dates. > >John H. Bingel born 1830 dec. 1914 >Martha Gates Bingel born July 15, 1833 dec. 1887 > >MOSS RIDGE CARTHAGE > >Olive Bingle (or Bingel ?) Printy >born (unknown to me) >deceased 1945 > >Marcus Printy born March 3, 1861 deceased 1910 >Burial Moss Ridge > >Ivan B. Printy born 1892 dec 1910 >Burial Moss Ridge > >I have, however, not been able to find stones for the Printy's, but these >are taken from old obituaries of which I have copies. If you run across >them, please tell me where in Moss Ridge. . . > >Also, am looking for a Thomas Austin, which could possibly be buried there. > >Glad you are making up this list, I will reprint after you have updated my >family. Thank you. I may have more later. > >BEM > > > > >

If you have a genealogy website that lists members of your family that were in Hancock County at any time and would like to have a link put on the Hancock site to your website please send that website, your name and your e-mail address to me. I will get the site started. T http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~hodges I'm an angel are you? http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~angels/

Hello, One last note - I sent off for a birth cert in 1915. They asked me for a copy of the death cert or obit. I've asked for birth records from different states and never been asked for proof of death - apparently in IL - you need to have it enclosed with your request. Tracy nauvoo@interpath.com MARTIN, TRIBOULET, FRENCH ----- Original Message ----- From: <GTUSA@aol.com> To: <ILHANCOC-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 9:55 AM Subject: [ILHANCOC] Obtaining certifications from courthouse > Good morning fellow Hancock Co Researchers! > > I've been playing mail tag with folks in IL trying to get a copy of my GG > Grandparents marriage cert. IRAD didn't have a copy as noted on a previous > posting, and they referred me to the county courthouse. > > So I wrote them. > > They sent a form, and I thought I'd share some of the info on it for those of > you also trying to obtain official info on your people. > > "APPLICATION FOR SEARCH OF RECORDS > (For Your Convenience) > > A fee of $7.00 is required for each search of birth, death or marriage > certificates filed with the County Clerk. If the record searched for is > found, certifications or certified copy will be furnished with out further > charge. Additional copies of the same record issued at the same time are > $2.00." > > Records available are: > > Birth records BEGIN in the year of 1877. > Death records BEGIN in the year of 1877. > Marriage Records begin in the Year 1829. > > The contact is... > > Kerry Asbridge, County Clerk & Recorder > PO Box 39 > Carthage, IL 62321. > > Hope this helps some of you. > > Gary Speck > GTUSA@aol.com > > Searching Hancock County for Beat(t)y & Westboork families. > > ______________________________

Hi! Does anyone know about Ivywild? I understand this was a sort of commune/artist colony, owned by Alice Green who had a son Harry. Thanks for your help Mimi Chandler mgpmbc@swbell.net

Hi! I am trying to find information about my mothers side of the family - maternal grandparents were Wedding. Mother's grandparents were James R. and Mary Emmaline Brandt (could have been Brant). I know Mary was born 1857 and James Randolph on 12-2-1852. They both died in 1918 during an influenza epidemic. Any information about this part of my family is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Mimi Chandler mgpmbc@swbell.net

-----Original Message----- From: Gloria Frazier <glofra@townsqr.com> To: glofra@townsqr.com <glofra@townsqr.com> Date: Monday, January 31, 2000 7:25 PM Subject: New maillist IL-WESTERN Coordinators, would you please pass onto your county lists. Thanks. --------------------- The new IL-WESTERN maillist is ready to roll! Anyone with a genealogical interest in the Western Regional Counties in IL, Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Fulton, Greene, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jersey, Knox, Macoupin, McDonough, Madison, Mercer, Morgan, Pike, Rock Island, St. Clair, Schuyler, Scott, and Warren, is welcome to subscribe at no cost to the mail list. Questions and answers regarding research in the counties, places to look for information, and queries are all welcome. However, one cannot post to the mail list without being a subscriber. Postings to the mail list will be archived. Anyone interested in browsing through these archives should go to: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ One can search the archives for a key word, as well as browse through the contents. The posts and replies are threaded for ease in following various linked topics. Please be advised that the mail list and archives, although moderated by the Western Regional ILGenWeb Coordinator, are owned by RootsWeb. Also note that RootsWeb's Acceptable Use Policy gives them the right to ARCHIVE AND REDISTRIBUTE. "So we can provide current and future users with access to your posts, by posting here you do give RootsWeb a permanent license to archive and redistribute those posts. This policy may be superseded in specific circumstances by other commitments made by RootsWeb." Further, RootsWeb states that YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR POSTS. If you post anything that results in RootsWeb being sued, you are responsible for any costs you incur. RootsWeb may also hold you responsible for any costs they incur defending themselves. To subscribe to the mail list, send an e-mail message with the word "subscribe" (without the quotation marks) as the only text in the body of the message to IL-WESTERN-L-request@rootsweb.com. If you wish to subscribe in digest mode, in which mail will be packed together in bundles, send the same subscribe message to IL-WESTERN-D-request@rootsweb.com. If at any point you wish to cancel your subscription, send a message with only the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotation marks) in the body of the message to either of the two addresses above. To post a message to the list, send it to IL-WESTERN-L@rootsweb.com. Happy Hunting! Gloria - --------------------------------- Gloria Frazier ILGenWeb Western Regional Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilwreg/western.htm

Good morning fellow Hancock Co Researchers! I've been playing mail tag with folks in IL trying to get a copy of my GG Grandparents marriage cert. IRAD didn't have a copy as noted on a previous posting, and they referred me to the county courthouse. So I wrote them. They sent a form, and I thought I'd share some of the info on it for those of you also trying to obtain official info on your people. "APPLICATION FOR SEARCH OF RECORDS (For Your Convenience) A fee of $7.00 is required for each search of birth, death or marriage certificates filed with the County Clerk. If the record searched for is found, certifications or certified copy will be furnished with out further charge. Additional copies of the same record issued at the same time are $2.00." Records available are: Birth records BEGIN in the year of 1877. Death records BEGIN in the year of 1877. Marriage Records begin in the Year 1829. The contact is... Kerry Asbridge, County Clerk & Recorder PO Box 39 Carthage, IL 62321. Hope this helps some of you. Gary Speck GTUSA@aol.com Searching Hancock County for Beat(t)y & Westboork families.

Hello Ron, I have the following on Grace: Name: Grace Margaret THORNBER Father: John Thomas THORNBER (16 Oct 1854 - 2 Apr 1938) Mother: Flora V. BERDINE ( - 28 Jul 1922) Birth 11 Aug 1878 Powellton, Hancock County, Illinois Siblings: Henry THORNBER (6 Jan 1880 - Aug 6 1880) Frank THORNBER (20 Oct 1883 - ) Edrie THORNBER (24 Oct 1888 - ) She is a first cousin, twice removed. We both descend from Henry Thornber & Lucy Siegfried. Chet Neff, Champaign, IL

I recently came into possession of a photo of a young girl named Grace Thornber. On the back of the photo it says PALMER & CO., PHOTOGRAPHERS, NAUVOO, ILLS. The girl appears to be about seven years old and the clothes she is wearing would indicate the photo was taken over 100 years ago. Does anyone recognize the name Grace Thornber? Ron ..

Sounds like a good idea to me. --------- The year 2000 is a Census Year. Most of the census will be taken by mail. After you have filled out your census form why not make a copy of it and file with your important (genealogy) papers. Then your family will not have to wait 70 years to learn about you.

Hi Terasa, I responded earlier to Ron Bryant's inquiry on how to reach the Webster Cemetery. As I told him, this is a drive I've made so many times that I have never paid close attention to mileage and road signs. I will follow this up with directions to the Majorville and Willis Cemeteries. Here are the directions to both the Fountain Green Cemetery at Fountain Green, Illinois, and the Webster Cemetery, Webster, Illinois, from LaHarpe, Illinois. Illinois Route 9 runs east and west through LaHarpe. Just beyond the west side of LaHarpe and just beyond where Route 94 joins Route 9 from the north, there is a southbound turn off onto a paved road to Fountain Green. I believe there's a sign at that intersection for Fountain Green. I think it's less than ten miles to Fountain Green. Just before entering Fountain Green, which today is little more than a cluster of houses, the Fountain Green Cemetery is on the east side of the road. This cemetery is kept mowed and neat. Continuing into Fountain Green, two or three minutes at most, the road will end at a T, east-west intersection. Turn right/west and stay on the paved road to reach Webster. There may be a sign. It's just about two miles. Like Fountain Green, Webster today is also a cluster of houses. The driver will see on the right/north side, a two-story building that used to be the General Store. On the east side of this building, turn right/north for one block, turn left/west for two or three blocks until you can't go any further, then right/north again for one or two blocks. The cemetery will be on the left/west side of the road. It's a nice little cemetery with an iron fence around it. Anytime I've been there, it has also been mowed and neat, with no trash or litter. Marcia Farina

While Shawnnee is away I'm going to play. I have found a good map of Hancock and with the help of GNIS I will be able to "mark" where the cemeteries are. What I am really looking for though is driveable directions to each cemetery. i.e. Go north from Carthage on highway #99 for two miles and then turn north on county road ### and go 1.5 miles and cemetery will be on the left hand side of the road on top of a hill. T http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~hodges I'm an angel are you? http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~angels/

I know that Shawnnee is working on burials in the different cemeteries and that we list the know cemeteries (GNIS) but does any one have a copy of the map for the county that I could scan and start putting markers on it for where the various cemeteries are? T http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~hodges I'm an angel are you? http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~angels/

Hi Connie - I have a CHAMBERS in Fulton County, not far from Hancock, in Lewistown. William R. CHAMBERS b 1848 Ohio, m: 1874 IL + Mary Ellen COZINE b 1857 IL children 1. M. Della b 1874 2. Grace E. b 1877 Lewistown, IL + m: 1. LONGWELL in 1893 Knox Co Child Hazel 1894 + m 2. Howard BRIGHT (of Canton IL) abt 1897 3. Mary b 1879 4. Harry b 1880 Fulton Co., Buckheart Twp. I am looking for Grace's child, Hazel. When Grace and T. LONGWELL divorced, she and Hazel disappeared. Hazel would be one of only a few of my relatives from this side of the family and would love to meet any descendants. Hope there is a connection. Thank you. Valerie In a message dated 1/20/00 3:43:10 PM Central Standard Time, CMBarron@aol.com writes: << am new to the list and seeking information of the CHAMBERS and NUSBAUMER surnames. I believe they were farmers in the Augusta area. William CHAMBERS married Rosa NUSBAUMER 2/24/1887 John M. CHAMBERS married Mary PAYNE 12/23/1858 Do either of these look familiar to anyone ?? If so, please contact me. I would also appreciate any suggestions for further sources. Thanks! Connie Barron CMBarron@aol.com >>

I am new to the list and seeking information of the CHAMBERS and NUSBAUMER surnames. I believe they were farmers in the Augusta area. William CHAMBERS married Rosa NUSBAUMER 2/24/1887 John M. CHAMBERS married Mary PAYNE 12/23/1858 Do either of these look familiar to anyone ?? If so, please contact me. I would also appreciate any suggestions for further sources. Thanks! Connie Barron CMBarron@aol.com

Ron Bryant <bryant@qconline.com>To: ILHANCOC-L@rootsweb.com <ILHANCOC-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, January 20, 2000 6:09 AM; Subject: [ILHANCOC] cemetey location Can someone give me driving directions to the Webster cemetery in Fountain Green township. Ron.. ------------------------ Dear Seekers: in response to above query, the location of the cemetery according to the Fountain Green Twp. plat shows County Road 17 (traverses east to west) goes thru/divides Webster in two parts...north and south parts. Country road designators show that Webster is between 2600E and 2700E - and by 1800N and 1900N. These designators with the E and N were made necessary/mandated by state (emergency) fire/ambulance laws in accordance with using the 911 emergency system. I know the above reads 'complicated', but when driving out on the country roads, you will see the 'green street signs' at crossroads. I doubt there is even a "cemetery" sign, but if need be, stop at any farm house and ask...just watch out for farm dogs! the following is from the "1968 History of Hancock County, Illinois. I am NOT in possession of the complete above cited 'History', but have just a few pages...quoting from what I have. NOTE: Please keep in mind that this is from back in 1968 - QUOTE - CEMETERIES: The Fountain Green Cemetery was surveyed and laid out July 30, 1856. It is a free burial ground. Edwin Meyers is the trustee. The Webster Cemetery is a free burying ground. Myrtie Allen is the trustee. Also included in this part of the 'history', is the McConnell Cemeter. Fountain Green, Webster, and McConnell Cemeteries are now the responsibility of the township for perpetual care [note: no date is given for when the township took over the responsibility. Now - don't get real excited about perpetual care. So many of the small county/country cemeteries are so hard to reach, and perpetual care may only be a 'tractor mowing' once or twice a year. Webster Cemetery, Fountain Green Township, Hancock County, Illinois: Webster Cemetery is located about a quarter mile north of Webster, Illinois, on a pioneer road which but a little farther on, if followed by the curious motorist, takes him or her into miles of hills and bottom lands. It is one of the oldest and best known burying grounds of Hancock County. It was in use previous to Morman times in the County. Webster was an incorporated Morman city with a population of about 600 set up by them in 1840. It had previously been called Perkins Settlement. It was renamed Ramus by the Mormans, and a year or so later, again renamed by them (Macedonia this time). After the Morman times in the County it was again renamed by non-Mormans who replaced the Mormons here (this time Webster). This cemetery was opened for use when the town was called Perkins Settlement. The first white people deceased in what is now Fountain Green Township, Pattillo Perkins, 1834, sleeps death's sleep here. The grandfather of the writer of this (Warren L. Van Dine is writing this and the date of writing is Nov. 7, 1965), Frederick V. Salisbury, told Warren before his death in 1934, that the Webster Cemetery extended farther to the east prior to 1860, taking in what is now the road described above. He said he was born in 1850, and he was ten years old in 1860. He told about watching road men that summer, move the road from where it was then aways west, to where it is today. He related how in the grading operation, they unintentionally cut into several graves at which no stones had been placed by the families of the deceased, one being the grave of a woman with red hair. The cemetery is, in reality, the high ground at the top of a north to south and west to east grade or hill. It slopes down to the beginning of a descent to a creek on the north and west. There are woods and broken pasture land on both these sides. It is a rectangular plot hardly a city block long the long way which is north and south. Fencing is very old farm field wire fence. Some time in recent years, a small triangular parking lot has been provided at the southeast corner of the grounds by cutting off and adding to the road, a corner where there are no graves. There is an ornamental iron fence with a four feet wide gate here. At one time there was a driveway through the cemetery from south to north. This can be traced easily by the lowered grade. There are no graves on this also. But the north entrance to this has long since been fenced across, with the bridge, which must have been maintained across the ditch by the highway removed. Use of this cemetery driveway was probably discontinued as long ago as the Turn of the Century (1900). This list was compiled by Warren L. Van Dine, Oct. 31 and Nov 4, 196-[looks like a 1 after the 6 in the year], with Allan Geddes of the prominent Geddes family of the Township assisting the first day. On the west side of the gravel township road, just north of the town of Webster, is historic Webster Cemetery. Here a pioneer couple who helped found the town of Plymouth, in St. Marys Township, Wilkins J. Salisbury and his wife, Catharine (Smith) Salisbury, are buried. He was a young New York attorney when at age 21, he met Catharine Smith, one of the three sisters of Joseph Smith [my note: the Morman Prophet]. After their marriage, in January of 1831, he became a prominent Morman minister, a charter member of the Quorum of Seventy in 1835. He worked as a blackmith in Webster, and died of typhoid fever there, October 28, 1853. Mrs. Salisbury died forty-seven years later, in 1900. UNQUOTE >From the 'history of 1968' above, an added tidbit on Fountain Green Twp.: QUOTE: Other cemeteries are the Lincoln, Section 34; Hadley, Section 27; Yetter, Section 32; Alton, Section 23; Roberts, Section 35; and LaCrosse, Section 7. The last six cemeteries have no care whatever. Some are not fenced. There are more Lincolns, near relatives of the President, buried in this Lincoln Cemetery than in any other cemetery in the nation. UNQUOTE So far as I know, there are no cemetery lists - as we think of lists - for the above cemeteries. In most of the "cemetery narratives", there may be a surname or two but no real list. So many of the original stones, if there were, indeed, stones at all, have disappeared with time due to age, weather, and in some cases, even vandalism, I feel sure. So - if you believe your ancestor died/is buried within Hancock Co., IL, suggest you submit a letter to the county courthouse and request a copy of the death certificate. It is 'smart' to always send along a SASE for a more prompt response. Good hunting - good luck! Have great days and peaceful nights! Shirley: bobert@panacom.com